Select Tool and Modes

You can click the arrow on the Select tool to use the following optional modes:

Using Box: Click and hold the mouse button while drawing a box in the Design window. If you draw the box from left to right, all objects fully enclosed within the box will be selected. If you draw the box from right to left, all objects touching the box will be selected.
Using Lasso: Click and hold the mouse button while drawing a freeform shape. All objects fully enclosed by the shape will be selected.
Using Polygon: Click and move the mouse to draw a line, then click again to draw the next connecting line, so that you create a polygon shape around the area you want to select.
Using Paint: Click and hold the mouse button while highlighting adjacent faces and edges. All edges and faces that you move the mouse over will be selected. Release the mouse button to finalize your selection.
Using Boundary: Select faces or edges that define a boundary, click the Select Seed tool guide, and click any object within the boundary. All objects from that seed object to the boundary are selected.
Select Components: In this selection mode, as you hover over geometry, when you are over an object that is in a component, that component will be pre-highlighted. This mode is set on a per window basis. It can be On in one window and Off in another.

No matter which mode you use, the objects that will be selected are highlighted to preview your selection. You can use the Selection filter to control what gets selected. To select or deselect all available filters, select the All check box.

Note: If you go into the Design tab with sheet metal features selected, the Select tool will work as it does in Sheet metal. Right-click the sheet metal part in the Structure tree and choose Suspend Sheet Metal in the context menu.